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Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.

Iris Murdoch

In philosophy if you aren’t moving at a snail’s pace you aren’t moving at all.
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Philosophy Speed
Of course reading and thinking are important but, my God, food is important too.
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Food God Important Reading Thinking
Perhaps when distant people on other planets pick up some wavelength of ours all they hear is a continuous scream.
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Distance Ourselves People
As we live our precarious lives on the brink of the void, constantly coming closer to a state of nonbeing, we are all too often aware of our fragitlity.
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Live Ourselves Philosophy
Freedom may be a value in politics, but it is not a value in morals.
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Freedom Moral Politics Value
Bereavement is a darkness impenetrable to the imagination of the unbereaved.
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Darkness Imagination
How different each death is, and yet it leads us into the self-same country, that country which we inhabit so rarely, where we see the worthlessness of what we have long pursued and will so soon return to pursuing.
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Death Different Pursue See Worth
There is a gulf fixed between those who can sleep and those who cannot. It is one of the greatest divisions of the human race.
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Greatness Human Race
We need a moral philosophy which can speak significantly of Freud and Marx and out of which aesthetic and political views can be generated. We need a moral philosophy in which the concept of love, so rarely mentioned now, can once again be made central.
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Moral Need Philosophy Politics
Jealousy is the most dreadfully involuntary of all sins.
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Crime Sin Spiritual
I’ve been so unhappy for years, so unhappy, I don’t understand how a human being can be so unhappy all the time and still be alive.
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Alive Happiness Human Time
Guilt keeps people imprisoned in themselves.
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Guilty One Liner People Prison
An experience is richest not talked of.
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Experience Rich
We are all prisoner, but the name of our cure is not freedom.
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Deep Freedom Philosophy Prison
The talk of lovers who have just declared their love is one of life’s most sweet delights. Each vies with the other in humility, in amazement at being so valued. The past is searched for the first signs and each one is in haste to declare all that he is so that no part of his being escapes the hallowing touch.
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Escape Life Love Talk Value
People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.
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Flower Joy Mad People Thinking Time

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